Re: [flasher] RE: array.indexOf

[Scott Rouse]

That is what I ended up doing...created a general function to find it and

stored the value in "arrayIndex" and made sure to jump out of the loop after

I found a match.  I was told by my programmer friend that I was spoiled by

Director and that most most of the Array functions that I am used to has to

be coded like such in most other languages...oh well, got it and it works

quickly and gets me what I need.  Thanks for all of your help!



function arrayIndexFinder (a, b) {

 //a is the name of the Array and b is the string to find in the Array

 arrayCount = 0;

 while (arrayCount<=a.length) {

  if (a[arrayCount] == b) {

   arrayIndex = arrayCount;

   arrayCount = a.length+1;

  }

  arrayCount += 1;

 }

}

----- Original Message -----

From: "Phillip Kerman" <

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To: "flasher from chinwag" <

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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:25 AM

Subject: [flasher] RE: array.indexOf



> You could also just write a loop that goes through each item in the array

> until it finds what you're looking for... then note what index it was

found

> in.

>

> It may seem like a slow proposition (stepping through as many as all the

> items) but arrays are generally very fast to search through.

>

> Here's the pseudo-code:

>

> searchFor="thing I'm looking for";

>

> for (i in myarray){

> if (i==searchFor){

> break;

> }

> }

> trace("it was found in spot "+ i);

>

>